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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1926.
FOUR HONOURS.
H.K.. UNIVERSITY CEREMONY SPEECHES.
Chinese verses of such erudition that it is said that no one but His Excellency car understand them. (Laughter).
A lover of books; Mr. Kotewall has a ne library of Chinese and SIR C. CLEMENTI'S DEGREE. English authors. He has written
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upon him and in exemplification of his belief that his inaugural speech ad Chancellor might suit ubly be devoted to presenting ideas which might be helpful to that section of the Faculty of Arts in the University which concarn on "Forestry" and "Governmented itself with things Chinese he ond is the author of two Chinese made certain comments and sug-
The Russian Light Opern Com- plays, one of which was performed gestions with regard to possibi-
pany that is due to open at the on the occasion of the recent visit lities of a united language in
Theatre Royal on Saturday next. of HR.H. the Prince of Wales. China. Whereas the written an-
Peking, Jan. 12.
is a company of artists brought Extraterritoriality Com-together by the misfortunes of Yesterday, at the seventeenthNowra director of companies and guage has been a bond of union
and revolution. Louis congregation of the University of harrassed man of business between the Eighteen Provinces,
Ladow, with his unerring instinct Hongkong, His Excellency the most business men appear to be His Excellency said in part, the mission held ite formal opening war
'sections of the Chinese race quite The Minister of Justice, Dr. Ma for what the public wants, saw Governer, Sir Cecil Clementi, was harrassed now-a-days: I can't spoken language divides various session' this morning. invested with an honour conferred think why. If they have nothing as much as different languages Chuwa, was elected Honorary and took his opportunity. upon him in 1916 but which at to do, why not do it gracefully?) divide the several nations of President, and Mr. Silas Strown, was not long before he met M.
Europe.. The inconvenience of Chairman. that time the was then adminis- Mr. Kotowall somehow finds time tering the Government of British not only to serve the public with this fact can be readily experienc-
The session was held in the same tering the trid he hoped to devotion which le literthed by anyone who moves among am as the Tariff Commission. receive later as the University's Amazing bus also to attend to the the Chinese population of Hong Mary Chinese and foreign officials Afteen years
troubles of his friends.. And I kong. Most people here speak doubt whether there is any one Cantonese, but the chair-coolies were present.
ure generally Hoklos, the villagers. in the Colony who has more friends than Mr. Kotewall (Applause).
hands,
1.
In presenting His Excellency as an honorary graduate (honorary degree of Doctor of Laws): Mf. W. W. Hornell, the Vice-Chan- cellor, said in part: Educated at St. Pauls School, London, and passing in due course to Oxforit as a Demy of Magdalen College our Chancellor took a first class in the hero's schoot of Classical Moderations andi the Boden Sanskrit Scholarship (Applause) He was henourably mentioned for the Hertford, Craven and Ireland Scholarships and "approughed very nearly as the Latin phrase had it to the winning of the Gaisford Greek Prose prize. dare wagher that there was a time
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Mr. Ponsonby Fane. On Mr. R. Ponsonby Fone was conferred the honorary also.
A degree of Doctor of Laws. Ponsonby Fare is well known in Hongkong-tappinuse) said the Vice-Chancellor in presenting him for the honour
was
Sir Skinner Turner proposed are often Hakkna, and many of that Mr. Wang, Chung-hun should the Chinese police are from Shan-be Chuman ut to-day's sitting, tung and speak the dialect of that which was unanimously agreed to province. For the future of China,
..
LIGAK WEFORM9.
if it is ever to have national unity.
Mr. Wang Chung-hai then called few things are of greater import. ance than that a speech common upon Dr. Ma Chan-w to deliver
A
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JAPANEAR HOPIA.
It
Balakoinikoff, driven by misfor-
into Shanghai. tunes similar to his compatriots,
M. Bakaleinikoff having had
experience Musical Direitor in Russia and Siberia, knows quite a lot about. the capabilities of his country- men. Further he is a composer of no mean order, witness his tuneful composition. "My Carlton Girl"
Together he and Louis Ladow
formed The Russian Imperial to the Eighteen Provinces should the athes of welcome: the latter Light Opera Company, a cellec- be contrived; and that is a mat-complying. Fle said that it was tion of stars, any one of whom is ter which may well engage the conceled on all hands that the prepared to take any part in the He has served the Colony, nay attention of that section of the status, of foreigners in ('hina 'called play at a moment's notice.
With M. Bakaleinikoff is aSSO- the Empire, in several ways, but Faculty of Arts in this University for rajustment siner Chin war always in a spirit of self-sacrific-which devotes itself to the study the only great independent country clated his charming wife who, in at once of the Chinese language and where extratourtoriality was pre-revolution days was well- ing devotion which is evidence of his sense of service literature.
omendy that confirmed. China known throughout the whole of There was a time in the earlier hd steadfastly introduced reforms. Russia дя опе tilt animating his distinguished
of the leading O family and of that quiet and all-period of my service in Hongkong her legal system and the work of figures on the Operatic Stage. An pervading piety which is so vital when I amused myself by making difention had been going on for important member of the Com-1 when our Chancellor was tempted an influence in his life.
detailed comparison between:
pany is Miss Vetta. This charm- to stay in Oxford and live the life"
some of the Sanskrit sutras and gears and would soon be coming lady, aged 7. besides doing her Mr. Ponsonby Fane of a scholar there. But Oxford's eduented at Harrow, but had to their Chinese pnslations,
part in the various performances, All Plete
knows more than a little of the Togg WIN Hongkong's. guin leave schoo! young owing to that I then did went to the bottom with (Applause).. Nor has our. Chan- different health. When he was of Hongkong Harbour
Mr. Hioki, replying, aid Wemysteries of the Charleston
extra- Mary Insarova who takes a celloy, since he came among us as only 17 he became private secre- several other manuscripts in the a recognise that the wendet. allowed his muse to dietary to the Governor of Natal, and typhoon of 1906; but I well re-teritorialay regime introduced large number of the leading of departmentalism-that awful he has since served four other member that time and again, as here, is simply a moths vivendi and parts, has wonderful voice and condition which a distinguished governors in the same capacity.
read the Chinese version, I came duined for abrogation upon the it will be of great interest to old who remember their Viceroy' of India, in a moment of including Sir Matthew Nathan pon passages which seemed en- renyal of the conditions wichstagers.
He has tirely meaningless until I turned caled it into being.
Dalys, to compare her presenta- usual expansion, and Sir Henry May.
We suxerely tion of "The Merry Widow" with Sanskrit diagnosed as resulting not so ministered to His Majesty's répre-
.the
griginal
hope that the present enquiry will that of Lily Elsie. She also takes |:
found that much from "moral delinquency" sentatives in Hongkong. Natal,
the enable us to indicate how soon and the part of Hona in "Gipsy Love."" as from "mental hiatus."
Trinidad, Ceylon and Fit and at Chinese was ut these points
Ein what manner this end will be Sir Cecil Clement is
Natalie Bochagova, apart from translation but least five years of his life have not now
Wish the unfailing nad her ability as a vocalist and an Chinese scholar of 'substantial spent in roving over the seas transliteration from the Sanskrit attained. repute and besides writing the mainly in search of Governors The baffled Chinese translator of the Chinese Government, I am artist, captures the hearts of all University anthem in Latin verse, laughter always a picturesquehad, in fact, consented himself certain that we shall be able to by her sympathetic personality. he has published "Cantonese Love figure (laughter) with the with reproducing the sound, and prepare a fair and constructive re- In "The Dollar Princes" she
Sanskrit port.
takes the part of Alice-the sense, of the Songs", Laughter and applause same brown comforter about his not the
daughter of Kudder, the million- from the gallery) and the "Pes. neck. (Laughter). vigilum Veneris." His Excellency During the War, when Sir
Abstruse Works. once travelled from Kashgar Henry May was Governor, this
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word.
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·OPFICIALS APPOINTED,
Those who remember The Em-
M. Toussaint propoed that Dr. aire, played by M. Bakaleinikoff, Now I venture to think that, if Ma Chur-wu be elected honorary The Merry Widow" and "Gipsy She also takes leading parts in Kowloon and thereafter publishedUniversity was in difficulty owing we pass from ancient to modern president.
Love," a summary of the geographical to teachers not being available.times, the difficulties met by the Mr. Hioki proposed Mr. Sikus observations recorded during the forward to help the University Sanskrit sutras will be felt in an
Mr. Ponsonby Fane then came Chinese translators
Ana and Ivan Lantzoff, besides of theStraw as Chairman,
being wonderful character journey. He has also published and ever since 1916 he has given ever greater degree by any one inceli propused Mr. Hay Wei-responsible for
The Portuguese delegate, Signor dancers themselves, are chiefly bock on the Chinese in British Guiana, We welcome you, Your himself unsparingly, in devoted who to-day attempts to translate, hen, who is a Shanai Fudge, Ballet...
training the Excellency, not only as our Chan-students of the University. (Ap- of Einstein into Chinese:
and gratuitous service to the say, Haget's Logte or the writinga
But Chinese Secretary-General.
It is not easy to write about the cellor but as one of our graduates plause). He has taught them; heit may justly be said that these
All proposals were carried un-Ballet because in the Far East whose suholarship is an ornament has played cricket with them; and works are so abstruse that theyanimously.
there is no standard of compari- to the University, and whose in the annals of the University present great difficulties in re-
The meeting barely insted half mason. All that can be said is that kindly sympathy and generous Cricket Club his name is and willspect of translation into any lan-etar.
the Ballet consists of artistes of understanding will be, to us who ever be a household word..
a calibre rarely before seen in (Apguage whatsoever. Take, there- work here, amabiding consolution
plause). For some years Mr.fore, instead such writings as the
Hongkong and encouragement.
Ponsonby Fane has made Japan simplest text book of English Referring to the bestowal of the This summer residence, only occa grammar, or of modern acquaint themselves with the pire in pre-war days, know # well-trained corps-de- honorary degree of Doctor of sionally visiting his beautiful geography, history or science: Chinese language. If Government what Laws on Sir R. E. Stubbs, (in family seat in Somersetshire. how are they to be translated into officials and missionaries can do ballet means.
In conclusion, one must draw absentia), the Vice-Chancellor Mr. Ponsonby Fane is always em- a non-alphabetical script? Or so, why cannot the merchants said: Our late Governor won phatic that he is no scholar. consider the case of arithmetic, follow suit? It would pay them attention to the fact that the every scholarship and prize which though if genius be an infinite algebra or trigonometry: is it not handsomely and they would Shanghai Theatrical Enterprises. Radley could offer and passed on capacity for taking pains, few clear that no works on such sub- SOON find that there is not have reverted to the prices of to Oxford us an Exhibitioner of would have greater claim to thejects can be translated into only profit, but also pleasure, long ago, and are charging $3, $2, Corpus Christi College. He won title than he has.
Chinese without adopting the in forming friendships with and $1 for their performances. a first class in the honours school
University's Future.
There is therefore but little need whole system of numerical and Chinese gentlemen of the of Classical Moderations and a In conclusion, the Vice-Chan- mathematical notation invented in old school, who may perhaps to emphasise the necessity of first class in the final school of cellor spoke of the "strong head-the west? The fact is that the not have been westernized as is early booking at Moutrie's.
addition to that concession, the Literge Humanjores.
un-Chinese language and the Chinese the case with many of the younger Management have decided to He went wind of unexpected and into the Colonial Office in 1900 and merited misfortune" which the script form an excellent medium generation, but who in intelli- make no charge for programmes. Fose rapidly. In 1913 he went to Colony was beating up against for the study of things Chinese,gence, uprightness and good man- Ceylon as Colonial Secretary and and said that the University did but that Chinese monosyllables.ners have nothing to learn from in 1919 he came here as Governor. not want to be a nuisance, always and Chinese ideograma are a kind the West. Here again I think that Of Sir Edward Stubbs' career as clamouring for more money, but of linguistic bed of Procrustes, the Hongkong University has Governor of Hongkong I need not surely the present was not the into which thoughts and words before it a wide sphere of useful- speak, but as one who knew him moment for curtailing educational that are alien to the Chinese can nees: and I propose as 3000 as from his boyhood I cannot refrain work in Hongkong. It was the only be forced by such drastic possible to enquire how far the from saying, that the amazing commercial community of Hong-choppings and changings as to Faculty of Arts can assist the quickness and tenacity of his kong which had brought the render them unrecognisable." Hongkong Government in the intellectual grasp which was my Chancellor quoted Sir Frederick educational advance in China can the Chinese language and gen.
University into being. The Vice-
no true higher education of our cadets in
(Reuter'a Service.) envy and despair while we were at Lugard, John Swire and Robert be made without an assimilation erally school together, continued
things: Chinese and also to Hart in this connection.
of western knowledge, it follows to ascertain what arrangements
Mexico City, Jan. 12. excite my wonder and admiration
We stand before the public to either that the Chinese apoken can be made to afford similar bediend killed several of eight. Pedral troops locubed the train during the 20 months that day asking them to weigh our and written worked with him as Chancellor of merits, but to pardon our defects, modified by the addition to it of young English business-men, who imm dintely executed.
language must be facilities in the University for They captured eight, who were said the Vice-Chancellor. If you an alphabet in a manner similar look forward to making a career
bunlit disposed.
this University.
Now, inasmuch as
and aspirations to China, it is not
interpret
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NOTICE.
In the bour of its direct need can't give us money, we will carry to that in which the Japanese in China; because, important All Icot 'wan, recovered and the Si. Edward Stubbs saved this on cheerfully, making the best of kana supplements the Japanese University; and in conferring on the little that we have, but we do ideograms, or else that the Chinese though, it is for this University him the doctorate of the Univer-claim as a right your sympathy people must become billingual and to interpret Western thoughts, Į uity; we are enrolling in our re-and co-operation.
(Applause) teach their children some alpha- cords not merely faithful All schools and universities are betic foreign language in addition less important that, it should Chancellor and a distinguished filled "as never before. Rich to their mother tongue, A de adequately
Chinese Governor but a great intellect. parents anxiously besiege house-cision between these alternatives thoughts and aspirations to the (Applause.) I understand that masters' doors, while no less eager will have very far-reaching effects Weat. (Applause.) Sir Edward Stubbs published parents from less wealthy homes upon the future of China: and I Degrees conferred by H.E. The works 'do not extend beyond the clamour for the admission of suggest that this problem also Chancellor were as follows:-- first volume of Lucas' Historical their children into the municipal may with advantage be studied by Degree of Bachelor of Medicine Georgraphy which he edited. But secondary schools. Nor is it hard the Faculty of Arts in this id Bachelor of Surgery-Messrs. I have heard that he recorded to find reason for this new be University. It is a problem Lam Shlu-kwong, Lee Boon-choe, from time to time in the files of lief in education. Force has fall which must certainly be faced by Lung Hsing-kuel, Soo Hoy-mun, the Hongkong Government, uttered, and the failure of force is the Government of Hongkong in Teh Yok-chee, Teo Kah-toh, ances worthy of remembrance, j education's' opportunity. (Ap-connection with the vernacular Teeung Fat-im, Yeo Kok-cheang)
schools for which we are respon- and William Yuen Sze-chung. sible both in the Colony and in the Degree of Bachelor of Science, His Excellency then conferred solution will depend the future of Ahmed. Cheng Hau-ting Liang
New Territories and upon its (Engineering) Messrs. S: B. THE Directors of the Hongkong The honorary degree of Doctor degrees upon the graduates pre- tion.
the honorary degrees and also the our system of vernacular educa- Lin-kee, Wu Chang-ching, Yue of Laws was also conferred on the sented by the Deans of the Faculty Hon Mr. R H Kotewall Pre-of Medicine, the Faculty of Seating the honorary graduate Engineering and the Faculty of La conclusion. He for callanny puteri Ho W6. And Menara Ban poke of the need for the enden. Teong-hoe, A. G. Botelho, Chan the Chinese Cheuk-wa, Cheong Wai-fung, -a-more: Fung Xiu-shin, Wong Ching-yau, Eam Chol-chiu Lau La-sang,
if Impossible of
publication, plause).
(Laughter.)
Hon, Mr. Kotewall,
Cracker Displays.
The Vice-Chancellor spoke of the Arts Special applause greeted Interest Mr. Kotewall had always Miss Irene Ho Tung, the only lady taken in education. He is a mem- graduate and, the second since the ber of the Court and Council of University opened who received the University, and University the degree of Bachelor of honorary examiner, in Chinese, The ceremony was con atty president of the University
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ball Club and a Patron of a Ro
Troop of Boy Scouts
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